We’re well and truly into the busy end of the term, although to be fair, when isn’t it busy?

Next week is definitely a mega week for us. On Wednesday it is the Yr 5-8 swimming sports beginning at 12:30pm at CBay.

On Thursday our intrepid PTA will be running their first fundraiser for the year: The Colour Walkathon from 1:30pm. This is always a great event, heaps of fun and lots of laughs. We are busy fundraising for our amazing bike track which will be a wonderful asset for the whole school to enjoy. So please, get in behind it!

The Timaru District Council are currently on a major drive to improve the city’s terrible re-cycling habits. As a school we’d like to support this drive as well. We have an ongoing rubbish and waste issue at the school, and to be honest it is a battle for us. Like homes, we get a limited amount of bins to manage the waste that we accumulate. Much of this waste is generated from normal day to day running of our classrooms, but an ever increasing amount comes in the form of food packaging at playtimes and lunchtimes. We’ve encouraged children to take this rubbish home with them in the past, and it’s time to make this request again. Our bins are often overflowing, and the solution isn’t buy more bins, it’s manage the problem better.

There are heaps of ways that families and whanau can help out – but the best way is to use reusable containers and eliminate the waste coming into the school in the first place.

Thanks for your support with this.

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal